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When Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy discovered the Washington Post’s Emily Heil had contacted his advertisers and labeled him as a person with a “history of misogynistic comments,” he took matters into his own hands and called her. Portnoy posted the 11-minute confrontation in its entirety on Twitter. Heil initially lies, saying she didn’t characterize Portnoy as a misogynistic racist, before being confronted with her own words. “We have this Pizza-fest happening on Saturday, and you’re reaching out to our advertisers,” Portnoy said. “You’re basically sending an e-mail that says, to the effect, ‘Dave’s a misogynic racist. Do you want...

President Trump might famously be obsessed with the size of his hands, but it was his large foot size that nearly caused an international incident. Shinsuke Sugiyama, Japan’s ambassador to the United States, spilled a little bit of behind-the-scenes tea from Trump’s recent visit to Japan during his remarks on Wednesday at the National Gallery of Art’s press preview of its new show, “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art.” Sugiyama described the president and first lady’s attendance at a sumo match last month, and said the couple seemed very interested in the traditional event. But the president’s presence posed...

The Washington Post was forced to issue a humiliating correction Friday after an email proved its reporter Emily Heil had spread fake news about Brett Kavanaugh’s alma mater Georgetown Prep. To make matters worse, this fake news was published in the Post’s “Reliable Source” section and took a full day to correct — but only after the Post attempted to stealth edit it with an update that was even more misleading. Heil’s entire piece is falsely premised on the idea that the bitter confirmation of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court resulted in Georgetown Prep (Kavanaugh’s former high school) being so...